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Title: Project Overview
Post by: Cruncher Pete on May 23, 2009, 09:56:40 PM
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Project Summary
What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease?
Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.

Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

You can help by simply running a piece of software.
Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.

Connecting to Folding@Home
The project's Home Page is located at:http://folding.stanford.edu/ (http://folding.stanford.edu/)

Folding Forum

The Projects forum is located HERE (http://foldingforum.org/index.php)

Statistics
View our Team Members List and their current score  here (http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team43781.html) or HERE (http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&t=43781)